This Is Really Happening

Well, it’s finally here – the blog I’ve talked about for eons it seems like, the website I made up excuses to why I shouldn’t start it. For years, music has been more than a simple hobby in my life, more like an never-able-to-be-quenched thirst to discover the good in it all. I’ve shared countless artists with friends at any opportunity that presented itself, and now it’s time to share those incredible musicians with all of you wonderful people out there.

It’s time for all the bands playing on a loop inside my head to have a grander audience, and that is much of what this blog will be about: bringing to light those authentic artists that may be hovering right below the radar. I hope you come to enjoy the bands on here as much as I do.

So why ‘Cause A Scene’ and why NOW? Well, the title has a few different facets to it, but much of it points back to a song that will forever rank up there as one of my favorites: The Format‘s ‘The First Single (Cause A Scene)’ (They are known as fun.now in case you’re keeping track at home). I distinctly remember seeing them open for Switchfoot and The Honorary Title in the grand Wright Center on the campus of my alma mater as a sophomore in college. At the time they were just a nascent band with a recently debuted LP out and I have my doubts that more than 2 other people in the packed out 2,600+ seat auditorium knew of them. But there I was, in the nosebleed section, singing each word to every song at the top of my lungs, using the seats in front of me as drums and stomping my feet as though the band desperately needed me to help keep them on time. It is no wonder that my fraternity brothers and I moved down to the first floor shortly thereafter, inevitably pleasing the patrons around us who were more than likely perturbed by my exuberance for the opening band.

All that to say: there are those bands, those songs even, that you come across that take you to a place that seems almost otherworldly, and The Format’s lead track has done that for me every time I’ve heard it. And if we’re being honest, we all have those songs that have that same unexplainable effect on us. So Cause A Scene, in many ways, is an attempt to champion those artists that make me (and hopefully you, too) come alive and believe in the transcending quality of music.

I hope you’ll join me on this adventure. It’s going to be a lot of fun…no pun intended.

2 responses to This Is Really Happening

YEEEEEEEES!!! I’m so in for this adventure…this is gonna be one uber awesome blog Larry!!! And OMGOSH “THE FORMAT” near and dear to my heart from Peoria, AZ (Go Sam and Nate)!!! I so remember “The First Single” being played on Phoenix radio stations!! I LOVED/LOVE that song!!! And like you, I was the lone ranger in loving this band, but I didn’t care because of the incredible impact they and their songs had on me!! There’s a part of me forever changed!! Btw they’re having an $8.00 sale on all their t-shirts!! http://hellomerch.com/shop/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=8&Itemid=57